The PS1 lacked a Z-Buffer to do sorting correctly, so I’m going to say this is PS2 graphics, but otherwise on point.

WiFi will probably creep in at the lower end of that soon. We’re only 2Ghz away!

There’s going to be a lot of conservative men clamoring for UBI, or more likely, cutting off their own nose to spite their face.

The whalebone hoop-skirt industry would like to vociferously disagree!

I was at Buckingham Palace watching The Queen’s ghost welcome a diplomatic party of chupacabras from Jalisco. I didn’t even take my phone with me. I’m that stupid.

You’ll get no disagreement from me!

Yes, and in reality. When you charge more per item for goods and services so that healthcare is included, they cost more.

No, you’d leave the store having paid $120 for groceries with no wellness fee tacked on.

The alternative is that they just jack up the menu prices to accomplish the same thing. This is just the equivalent of pricing things at $19.99 because people don’t understand that really means $20 which sounds like a lot more money.

Beyond just trying to maintain a reaction, we’ll need a design that allows for the extraction of working energy. At present, all designs require tons of additional energy to keep them cool. We’re very far from any design that is power positive in a real sense. Any time you ask one of the fusion fanboys about this there’s a lot of hand waving, but I’ve never seen any actual proposals to extract working heat from the reactor. Any designs that require supercooling are especially problematic. It’s really difficult to extract heat capable of turning a turbine through the supercooled magnetic containment.

Fusion will happen, but not before a whole lot more money and time (in decades) disappears into the money pit.

When websites start blocking clients that don’t implement the wei handshake, you’ll be forced to use one that does if you want to visit those sites. Firefox will either adopt it or become a second rate browser.

Ah, but this is on a different scale than in countries without a free press. The press in the US is free to ignore the government’s information or to run a counter message. This happens every hour of every day.

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Where? What media outlet? Give a specific example.

Show me an example of US state authored or propagated propaganda. How many people does the US have that are employed by the state to manipulate public opinion online?

I do not know why they do not import more food

Food costs money and they’ve chosen to spend what money they have elsewhere. It is a matter of priorities. It’s ok, they don’t have to worry about being voted out of office over failing the public.

US uses far more energy per capita than most countries

Incorrect (for a while now). Did you follow the link in my message?

Good luck squeezing blood from that stone.

One thing I find interesting about the fediverse is that it is so empty that you can occasionally see honest-to-God pro-NK propaganda. NK lost a quarter of a million people to starvation in the 1990’s and are on a fast track to repeat the past. So glad you have access to the internet. Good for you.

Of all the countries burning fossil fuels, why does the US get singled out for reparations other than it’s a popular punching bag and the “face” of western capitalism? It’s not like the US is sitting on stacks of cash. Quite the opposite…

https://www.unep.org/explore-topics/climate-action/what-we-do/climate-action-note/state-of-climate.html